Your Grace Bishop Athenagoras of Nazianzos, Archimandrite Nektarios Papazafiropoulos, National Chancellor of our Archdiocese, Protopresbyter Elias Villis, Chancellor of the Archdiocesan District, Larry Hatzoglou, Archdiocesan District Council Vice President, Protopresbyter Nicholas Anctil and Christine Balidis – Co-chairs of this Banquet, Jennifer Constantin – Archdiocesan District Philoptochos President, Protopresbyter Peter Orfanakos – President of the Archdiocesan…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and the staff of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America gather to bid farewell to Fr. Eleftherios Constantine, Director of the Archbishop’s Office. Concluding ten years of service at the Archdiocese, Fr. Eleftherios has also served as a Deacon under Archbishop Demetrios, Formerly of America, and as both Deacon…

On June 6, 2023, the Archdiocesan District of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America hosted its first ever “Servant Leadership Awards Banquet.” Over 700 clergy and lay people gathered together with incredible enthusiasm to honor one adult and one young adult from each parish in the district for exemplary service to the Church. “We are…

At the request of the Metropolitan of Mikhailovsky-Košice, His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa handed over to Metropolitan Georgios of Mikhailovsky-Košice, Head of the Autocephalous Church of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, a fragment of the relics of the Holy Glorious New Martyrs Gabriel and Kyrmidolis, which were stored in the…

On June 6, 2023, His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa welcomed at the Patriarchal Office the representatives of the Autocephalous Church of Poland, Professors Jerzy Ostapczuk and Jersy Betlejko, who participated in the sitting of the International Joint Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches….

In a testament to the ongoing commitment towards fostering religious harmony and cultivating peaceful coexistence, H.E. Maulen Ashimbayev, the Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Head of the Secretariat of the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, led a distinguished delegation consisting of Ministers, parliamentarians, and…

Monday, May 23/June 5, 2023, was celebrated as the Monday of the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Holy Trinity, especially on the hill of the Holy Zion, because it was on this hill that the Holy Spirit descended upon the holy disciples and apostles in the form of fiery tongues. In honour and…

The Patriarchate celebrated Monday, May 23/June 5, 2023, according to the divinely inspired book of Pentecost, as Monday of the Holy Spirit. It was honoured as a day of dedication especially to the Holy Spirit, because of His great work enlightening the Holy Glorious Apostles. The Holy Spirit, “God and deifying”, “fire divided into different…

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew referred to the need to promote cooperation and unity among Christians in his speech, who presided over the Divine Liturgy, which was held on the Monday of the Holy Spirit, June 5, 2023, at the Church of the Holy Trinity of the Community of Stavrodromi. The Ecumenical Patriarch pointed out the following:…